ABOUT NADH
NADH is the abbreviation for the biological substance Nicotinamide-Adenine-Dinucleotide-Hydride.
The H stands for hydrogen, hence NADH can be regarded as the biological form of hydrogen, which reacts with oxygen present in all cells to produce water and ATP, the major energy currency molecule of the cell. NADH is also known as Coenzyme 1. This term signals the importance of NADH as the most important coenzyme in our body.
For enzymes to become active they need coenzymes. One can compare enzymes and coenzymes with an engine and its fuel. The enzyme is the engine and the fuel is the coenzyme. Without the coenzyme the enzyme will not work. The deficiency of a needed coenzyme will actually slow down enzymatic production processes. NADH is the essential coenzyme for more than 1000 metabolic reactions in the human organism, the most important of which are:
(1) NADH increases ATP energy in every cell
(2) NADH repairs altered DNA and damaged cells
(3) NADH acts as one of the strongest anti-oxidant |